Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

I had a slight feeling of babysitting as we walked soberly along together using all our old phrases, making all our old jokes, not quite feeling all our old fondness.

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

I would hate for climate change to be accepted simply because everyone was dying.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

When he inches into me, I feel the pain, but I also feel the invisible chains around my wrists break and shatter.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.